Welding and nudging when word is grouped

[Tinkiebug]

Hello all.

This is probably a stupid question, but I was playing around on SCAL (I'm still new at SCAL) and saw that when a word is grouped, I can not nudge the letters closer together to weld them (like you can do in Cricut Design Studio). When I click the nudge arrows, the whole word moves and then I have to ungroup them to nudge the letters close together to weld them. Therefore if I want to create a shadow for a whole welded word, I have to create a shadow for each letter separately because I ungrouped the word to weld them (hope this makes sense). Is this the way it is suppose to be or am I just missing something.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

[firstcut]

Use the tracking control to move all the letters closer together while the word is still grouped and see if that will give you what you want.

[HeatherM]

Therefore if I want to create a shadow for a whole welded word, I have to create a shadow for each letter separately because I ungrouped the word to weld them (hope this makes sense).

If tracking doesn't give you a results that you like, you can select the whole word again by drawing a selection box around it. Then you can group it again and shadow the whole word with one selection. HTH

[ScrappyDew]

Here's a tutorial page put together for SCAL 2: Moving text in order to weld. (3 Different Methods)

Video and Printable version - http://www.scrappydew.com/tutorials/fil ... al_way.php

Hope it helps